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10+ Years Later, A Few People From Highschool Try to Contact Me
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Just wanting others to chime in who have experienced this as well. I have been out of HS for over 10 years, and my mother got a call from my ex-HS girlfriend's friend who passed on some email addresses of people wondering what's up.
I find it kinda strange... sure, people are curious, but there has to be motives. Thank god my mother is very good about privacy and, even though she remembered the girl who called her asking about me, she did not give out my contact info. I don't think I will contact these people, I don't see much point. All the best to them, but we have not kept in contact and it has been a long time.
Interested to hear other people's experience.
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If she's hot and you're single, why not see what's up?
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"Life is the crummiest book I ever read. There isn't a hook, just a lot of cheap shots, pictures to shock, and characters an amateur would never dream up." (Bad Religion)
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Then don't bother. You're past that point in your life, and wives don't dig old girlfriends hanging around - no matter what she (wife) might say otherwise.
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No good can come from this.
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Cold Warrior and alligator:
That is what I am thinking. It just stirs the pot and, they should not even be trying to do this anyway. It is prodding into someone's life years after everyone has gone their separate ways. Man, some people are more lonely and lost than I could have imagined...
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"Life is the crummiest book I ever read. There isn't a hook, just a lot of cheap shots, pictures to shock, and characters an amateur would never dream up." (Bad Religion)
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Ever heard of Facebook?
Man, it's amazing the people who want to say hi on that thing.
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Mankind's only chance is to harness the power of stupid.
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Originally Posted by freudling 
I find it kinda strange... sure, people are curious, but there has to be motives. Thank god my mother is very good about privacy and, even though she remembered the girl who called her asking about me, she did not give out my contact info. I don't think I will contact these people, I don't see much point.
Maybe she's pregnant, has a really, really long gestation period, and you're the father.
I dunno, people just think about old friends and want to find out what's up. You just exchange a few pleasant emails. I'm surprised by the people here saying it's a bad thing. 
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I've always been a rodent and rabbit hunter. Small varmints, if you will. I began when I was 15 or so and I have hunted those kinds of varmints since then. More than two times.
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"oh freudling, I can remember all the good times we had when we were dating. I've compared all of my bfs i've had since you and none have measured up! oh freudling, be mine again. please. i'll make sure we stay together for ever!" err, I can think of a few more bad things that can stem from this BRussell. 
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brassplayersrock²:
Hilarious. Indeed, let's get past a few friendly hi's and get to the root of the reason why someone is trying to look you up after 10 years. brassplayersrock² nailed it. I should also mention, she wants to visit my mother from time to time, since she is now a flight attendant and frequently flies into my parent's city. Sure, my mother liked her in HS, but now wanting to visit with her once in a while after all this time, I feel like she is violating my personal life.
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I guess we've just had different experiences, or something. I've gotten out of and back into contact with many old friends and girlfriends. It's always been fine. Were they psychos when you were friends with them back in the day? If not, why would there be a problem now? If so, why were you friends with them then? 
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I've always been a rodent and rabbit hunter. Small varmints, if you will. I began when I was 15 or so and I have hunted those kinds of varmints since then. More than two times.
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Different time, different life, different everything. Lots has changed. The problem, BRussell, if you don't understand it, is that she is likely single and looking to meet with me, probably hoping something will happened. I am now in a large city living with a girl and am happy. I agree that nothing good would come of this. No, she is not a psycho or some other stupid term one might think up.
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"Life is the crummiest book I ever read. There isn't a hook, just a lot of cheap shots, pictures to shock, and characters an amateur would never dream up." (Bad Religion)
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Maybe it's time for the 10 year reunion and she's the organizer?
Yeah, I know, not likely, but hey...
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Originally Posted by Eug
Maybe it's time for the 10 year reunion and she's the organizer?
Yeah, I know, not likely, but hey...
Hell yeah, she's the organizer of a chance to cheat on your partner.
Go for it 
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Well we obviously have had different experiences freudling, and you asked for people's experiences. I've personally never had a bad experience talking to old friends. It's happened several times since I've been married, and I can't imagine an old girlfriend thinking that I was single after that long. Everyone thinks about old friends from time to time and wants to hear what's up with them, and I don't understand why someone would think something bad was going to happen from it. I don't think I've ever lost a friend to time - I mean, I've lost contact with people, but I can't imagine not wanting to talk to them if the opportunity arose, unless there was something weird about them that made me not trust them.
Of course I wouldn't just meet up with an old girlfriend without my wife. That would be ridiculous. In my experiences, it's always been via email or phone. If it was an attempt to put out feelers for "rekindling our long-lost romance," that would be shut down in a minute or two on the phone or a few lines of an email, and if they're a mature person, that would be the end of it.
:shrugs: I'm really easy to find by name on the internet, so this has happened to me a lot - emails from old friends and girlfriends out of the blue. It's never been a big deal. Maybe it's different if they contact your parents though - that's never happened to me.
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I've always been a rodent and rabbit hunter. Small varmints, if you will. I began when I was 15 or so and I have hunted those kinds of varmints since then. More than two times.
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Originally Posted by turtle777
Hell yeah, she's the organizer of a chance to cheat on your partner.
Well, a hot girl from my high school contacted me out of the blue after 10 years. Turns out she was organizing the reunion.
P.S. 'Tis the truth... unfortunately.
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Originally Posted by Eug
Well, a hot girl from my high school contacted me out of the blue after 10 years. Turns out she was organizing the reunion.
Oh stop lying.
We all know that hot girls don't organize reunions. At least not on THIS planet
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On which planet do you live? Remus?
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10 year reunion is past, and she was one grade lower than me.
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i've had several contact me (male and female)
from hearing about my dad's death (several grades either side of mine) to reunion stuff (my grade). i've also had contacts from people that were now into pyramid/amway crap and 1 in scientology.
very weird contacts that is for sure.
all contacts came 15+ years after high school.
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Originally Posted by freudling
Different time, different life, different everything. Lots has changed. The problem, BRussell, if you don't understand it, is that she is likely single and looking to meet with me, probably hoping something will happened. I am now in a large city living with a girl and am happy. I agree that nothing good would come of this. No, she is not a psycho or some other stupid term one might think up.
Are you sure of this, or is it just a corner of wishful thinking?
You *might* just be flattering yourself...people change after ten years, and some *do* know to expect that others have, as well...?
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